Štimac Goran – Paradiso IV

Born in 1959 in Rijeka. In 1981, he enrolled at the Pedagogical Faculty in Rijeka, majoring in fine arts, choosing sculpture specialization under Prof. J. Diminić, and in 1984, he moved to Zagreb and enrolled in sculpture at ALU, graduating in 1988 under Marija Ujević. Since 1986, he has been a member of HDLU and ZUH. At the end of 1992, he went to Vienna where he enrolled in the Higher School of Applied Arts and studied scenography. He has participated in the creation of numerous scenographies for about twenty productions at the Austrian Theatre. He is also involved in organizing exhibitions of current Croatian art. In 1996, he was employed at the Pedagogical Faculty in Rijeka as an assistant, then as a lecturer, and in 2006 was appointed dean of the Rijeka Academy. He has organized about fifty solo exhibitions of recent cycles of drawings, paintings, and sculptures and has participated in more than a hundred juried conceptual, thematic, biennial, and triennial exhibitions. He lives in Opatija.